Improvement in type-wheels for printing-telegraphs



11. A11. GALLAH'ER.

Improvement in Type Wheels for Printing Telegraphs.

No. 116,175. l

Patented June 20,1871.

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ROBERT H. GALLAHER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN TYPE-WHEELS FOR PRINTING-TEL-EGRAPHS.

Specification-forming part of Letters Patent No. 116,175, dated June 20,1871.

v To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT H. GALLAHER, of the city, county, and Stateof New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inRotating Printing-Wheels or Attachments to Telegraphic or otherPrinting-Machines or instruments for making impressions, which I termthe Monogrammic Printing- Wheel,7 of which the following is aspecitication:

The nature of my improvements does not refer to printing-telegraphicinstruments or other printing-machines or devices proper, but

, pense and the wear and tear of instruments employed in telegraphiccommunications, more especially in connection with varied commercialoperations or business pursuits, and the transactions connected with thequotations of purchases and sales of stocks, bonds, and othersecurities. My improvements can also be adapted to marine and submergedtelegraphs, and will be found valuable in connection with thesignal-service reports, Where telegraphicprinting machines may be usedto convey condensed yet comprehensive reports by representing on theprinting-Wheel such signs as may be adopted to designate the differentconditions ofthe weather at various points.

Deeming it unnecessary herein to describe the mechanical operation orthe mechanism of telegraphic machines or instruments, I conne myspecification to what I claim as new and improved devices, appliances,or attachments which are readily susceptible of being connected to andused with any printing-telegraphic machine or instrument. It is,contemplated, furthermore, to. usethese devices or appliances in avariety of ways for various purposes, not essential here to be specied.

In the several modes now employed to communicate the state or conditionof the stock market by telegraphic medium or transmission,

various devices are used in the form of one or,

more rotating wheels or drums, actuated by the electric current, saiddevices being provided With the ordinary individual 0r separatealphabetic and numeral figures or characters, distributed or arranged inorder and relative positions, one to the other, at proper intervals,around the periphery or circumference of said wheels or drums, and madea fixture or permanent part thereof, an impression of which visrepresented in Fig. 9. In the form of devices now used in communicatingthe state or condition of the stock market the telegraphic operator setsin motionthe mechanical devices, causing the wheel or wheels to rotateover a fillet or ribbon-like strip of paper, and for each and everyletter or ig'ure or fraction required to be denoted a separate anddistinct manipulation is made therefor by the operator at differentintervals of time, thus expressing or denoting by several separateletters or figures the name of the kind of stocks, bonds, or securities,and the quantity as Well as prices thereof. (See Fig. 9.) In such casethe initial letters are separate, whereas in my method the letters arecombined or monogrammic. (See Fig. 10.)

In the application and use of my monogram- :mic devicesbut one distinctor single manip- ,ulaticn is sufficient to denote or imprint two, three,or more characters at one and the same time, denoting a multitude ofletters or figures, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3 and Figs. 7 and 8,

and within a condensed space, so that it is' evident my improvementshave greater advantages than any other printing-telegraphic machine inuse, (see Fig. 10, at a c 61;) for if, by my devices, one singlepulsation of the electric current is vmade to express or denote two or:more characters or signs at one and the same time, (see a c d, Fig.10,) instead of requiring a separate manipulation and pulsation for eachand every distinct letter, figure, or communication, great economy oflabor and space is attained, a much greater facility of dispatch isproduced, andthe wear and tear of the instrument avoided, together witha very great saving of materials used in connection therewith, areduction of space, and a less amount of llet being required. (See Fig.10.) Consequently it is claimed that, for all business purposes, `bytheuse of my monogrammic de- I vices and arrangement there is a very greatsaving of time in communicating quotations of prices from the stockexchange to the offices of bankers and brokers. At least two or threehundred per cent. more quotations can be sentby use of my wheels than bythe wheels now in use in the same space of time. Moreover, in the use ofthe devices now employed great confusion of letters and figures is oftenproduced on the fillet of paper because of the numerous manipulations ofthe machine necessary to produce the separate and distinct letters andfigures representing the names, quantities, and prices of stocks orother securities, as they have to be reported when the variousfiuctuations and transactions occur at the stock exchange. Said rapidand repeated manipulat-ions of the transmitting instrument cause thetype-wheels ofthe printing-machine to be thrown out of gear, and,consequently, produces a confused and unintelligible report.

Another peculiar feature of my improvements is that one or more or allof the monogrammic emblems may be made attachable and detachable, ifdesired, by being dovetailed or inserted in any suitable manner into theperiphery of the wheel, the object of which is to meet the requirementsby substituting one monogramforanotherintheeventofany special change ofname in the stocks or other securities called at the stock exchange,from which quotations are sent. rIhis substitution renders itunnecessary to make an entire new type- \vheel. (See letters b b b c (l,Figs. 4, 5, and (i.)

Another feature of my improvements consists of the construction ofmonogrammic type formed of initial or other letters or figures, socombined or condensed as to express, denote, or designate fractionalparts of any amount of value or quantity or commodity, the saidcombination or condensed monogram mic type, sign, or emblemrepresentation thereof being delineated in the key at Figs. 2, 3, 7, andS, and in Fig. I0.

My improvements are also susceptible of being used on the same wheel, oron two, three, or more separate and independent wheels, upon which theordinary alphabetic letters, and numerals, and fractional figures orsymbols are now used, and similar to what is delineated by Fig. 9,showing a llet of paper with a communication thereon. The wheels mayalso be arranged in groups or pairs, either laterally, or in advance ofone another, or in any suitable manner so as to produce the desiredresults of connnunication. I also contemplate, in connection with (orindependent of) said monogrammic wheels, the employment of abbreviatedcombinations of condensed letters, symbols, figures, or numerals,instead of full words or names, so as to express amount of Value andquantity of commodity, these combinations to be on one type and printedat one manipulation, or separate letters condensed so close together asto be able to use but one manipulation and one contract of fillet andwheel to print the said combination. In

connection with my improvements a key to the signs or symbols is used,which may be readily understood by any one interested in the stockmarket. (See Figs. 7 and 8.)

Having set forth the nature and object of my improvements, theaccompanying diagrams, with letters of reference thereon marked, willmore fully show the devices or monogrammic wheels detached from thetelegraphic instruments.

Figure l represents an end View of a monogrammic wheel with symbols ortype a a a a arranged at proper intervals around theperiphery thereof,the faces of the type not being shown. Figs. 2 and 3 represent views ofthe periphery or rim of the wheels, showing the faces of the monogrammiccharacters. Figs. 5 and 6 show faces of the type c d and represent thedovetail monogramniic type detached. Figs. 7 and S represent the key tothc meaning ofthe monogrammic signs or symbols. Fig. 9 represents afillet-roll of paper, such as is used in furnishing dispatches, theletters and figures shown being such as are now used in thestock-printing' telegraphic operations, said letters and figures being'sepa ate and apart. Fig. 10 represents a fragment or part of a fillet ofpaper, showing the impression of' my monogrammic letters and symbols incontrast with the single alphabetic signs and the ordinary well-knownnumerals and their fractions, the same being represented in Fig. 9.

I do not claim the invention of monogrammic initial type, dies, norengraved plates, such having been used in various ways in letter-pressprinting or embossing; but

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

l. A monogrammic wheel, drum, cylinder, roller, disk, or plane, providedwith or having formed and arranged on or around the periphery, rim, orcircumference, or f'ace thereof', in any suitable manner, abbreviatedand condensed combinations ofletters, emblems, signs, symbols,characters, figures, or numerals to represent names, show quantity,denote kind and express rate of value of any railroad stock, bonds, orother securities or commodity o1' connnerce, the said devices combinedin operation and used 1n connection with any kind or system ofelectro-magnetic 01 telegraphic or other printing machinery for thepurpose of communications, substantially as set forth and represented inthe accompanying diagrams.

2. The combination of my monogrannnic wheels, provided with theirseveral peculiar signs and symbols, with a system of single or doublearrangement of wheels, drums, rollers, or cylinders having plainseparate alphabetic letters, numerals, figures, or fractions, andproducing similar impressions and communications to what are shown onthe fillet representation in Fig. 9.

ROBERT H. GALLAHER.

Witnesses:

JOHN H. MATTINGLY, H. POLKINHORN.

